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Quiz Questions
- According to the Venerable Bede the Anglo-Saxons were the descendants of the Angles, Saxons and which other Germanic people?
- The four main kingdoms in Anglo-Saxon England were East Anglia, Wessex and which two others?
- Alfred the Great was King of the Anglo-Saxons in which century?
- Can you name the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?
- Name the most important and famous work of Anglo-Saxon poetry?
- Where in Suffolk is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries?
- What name is given to the famous collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons?
- Which holy island was sacked by Vikings in 793?
- What name was given to the coalition of Scandinavian warriors who invaded England in AD 865?
- Which king defeated the Vikings in 937 in the Battle of Brunanburh?
- What was the name of the monk that Pope Gregory the Great sent at the end of the 6th century to convert Britain’s Anglo-Saxons to Christianity?
- Cynethryth was the only Anglo-Saxon queen ever depicted on a coin. She was the wife of which king who died in 796 AD?
Answers
- Jutes
- Mercia and Northumbria
- 9th century (886 until his death in 899)
- Harold II
- Beowulf
- Sutton Hoo
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- Lindisfarne, or Holy Island
- The Great Heathen Army
- Athelstan
- Augustine
- King Offa (King of Mercia)